taxman Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Just picked up A Taste for Death by PD James but realised I'd read it before. Nevermind, I can't remember who did it or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenny.gray Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 reading eyup knutty,so far very disappointing he cannot stop congratulating himself how good he is and how many women he as slept with.can only hope it gets better one for the charaity shop i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaranthus Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 China Mieville - The City & The City. He's a badass writer and its a really good book, about half way through, though I'd recommend reading a couple of his other books before this one, namely Perdido Street Station and The Scar. Some of the best ideas I've ever read in a novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaranthus Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 As for recommended reading; Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun is quite possibly the best book I've ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sec78 Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Following the recent tv drama 'Desperate Romantics' I bought the book 'Lizzie Siddal - The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel' by Lucinder Hawksley. I don't usually do biography's, I'm more into the crime thriller genre but this is a really good read, particularly for anyone interested in art history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor&Mel Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Having a bit of time to spare on the bus each morning, I've started reading "In Search Of Lost Time" by Marcel Proust... It started out as what I considered a pointless and futile challenge, but I've found it absolutely gripping, even at 7 in the morning... Perceptive, stimulating, beautifully written. Not the easiest of reads unless you are prepared to handle sentences that are measured in kilometres rather than number of words, but an enriching masterpiece that's worth taking the trouble to wade into... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaranthus Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Has anyone read The Picture of Dorian Gray? My brother thinks it is a literary maasterpiece of epic proportions whereas, although I am a fan of the storyline, I found it a bit tedious. Apparently everyone else that he know who has read it agrees with him. Am I the only person in the world who doesn't want to hump this book ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naylor Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 just finished deception point by Dan Brown, and recently Angels and Demons. Brought the DVD last night and must say as good as the film was, the book was much better. Buying The lost symbol this week, lookin forward to reading that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweatshopboy Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Just woke up on settee after finishing Dissolution by C. J. Sansom, good book, a murders in the monastery, set in the reign of Henry the Eighth. Interesting hero Matthew Shardlake an hunchback lawyer working for Thomas Cromwell. There are three more Shardlake novels, Dark Fire, Sovereign, and Revelation, have got Revelation and saving it for later. My next read is Sign Of The Cross by Chris Kuzneski. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samesame monkey Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Reading 'The Motorcycle Diaries' by Che Guevara, and also 'Maus II' by Art Spiegelman, which is a graphic novel about the author's experiences in Austwich were the Jews are depicted as mice, the Nazis as cats, the Poles as pigs and so on, a very interesting read (It's the first graphic novel i've read) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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